Ecclesiastes 2:20

King James 2000

Therefore I gave my heart up to despair of all the labor in which I toiled under the sun.

Cross References

Genesis 43:14

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored in it shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.